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Community Meeting: Week 4
by ddemaio openSUSE 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Hi all, You can find information about openSUSE meetings at https://calendar.opensuse.org. As a reminder, after our community meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes). The Creative Freedom Summit also https://creativefreedomsummit.com tomorrow, so consider joining that if you are interested design. Community Meeting 2 is scheduled for Thursdays at 20:00 UTC. Find all meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting v/r Doug

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Desktop Environments
by Felix Miata 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

None are /listed/ on https://www.opensuse.org/ https://www.opensuse.org/ has obscurely included some in a large randomized collection of "Popular Portals", whatever "portal" means (to anyone not already familiar with openSUSE). No list appears on <https://en.opensuse.org/Installation> or <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book-startup/art-o…>. The reason this came up is I was looking at the history of LXDE/LXQt on Wikipedia, and noted "citation needed" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXQt in the adoption section. I spent over half an hour trying to find a suitable reference. Other than that portal list and page, and the component list on a new bug report page (seems lacking for the purpose), I found nothing like what I was looking for, a list of DEs available for installation, something I would expect most fishing for a new distro to want to see. It seems like the only way to find out what DEs are supported would be to start installation, and stumble into the obscurely located and identified detailed package selection. I thought about adding a list to the second section on https://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page, but where would /I/ get one from? If one of the goals of the project is to attract new users and talent, this surely must be one of its inhibitors. Some possibilities from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment: Budgie Cinnamon Deepin Enlightenment Gnome KDE/Plasma LXDE LXQt Mate XFCE Should WMs be included? Without opening the installer, where else to look? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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openSUSE Board minutes 2024-01-15
by Douglas DeMaio 19 Jan '24

19 Jan '24

= Board Meeting Monday 2024-01-15 13:00 CET = * Present: Doug, Mau, Gerald, Patrick * Excused: Gertjan, Neal * Minutes by: Doug * Guests: bittin(Luna Jernberg), MarcelR (luriv), Georg = Minutes = == Membership == (Standing Topic) A few membership applications have not been approved. Discussed the current status == Board Election == Info about the openSUSE Regular Board Election 2023 (https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election) --- Deadline for voting today 15th Jan - Announce results 16th Jan and decide a date/meeting for handover == Hand over meeting next meeting? == == oSC25 Call for Hosts == Be clear about criteria * New attendees *Accessibility *Able to attend community meetings and provide updates should they be selected *Total cost to run *Aim to be successful as other oSC's for gaining new members *Create a list of technical universities to share as areas of interest * Patrick talked about a bidding process https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/25/Bids/ - and Luna suggested bidding process via Wiki pages on the openSUSE Wiki with voting in the end * in America instead of Europe maybe * Thank you to Mau and Patrick for serving on the openSUSE Board == Handover == Will determine once new board members are selected

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openSUSE Board Election 2023 Result
by ish＠sysadmin-journal.com 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Dear openSUSE members, The openSUSE Board Election is now closed. 199 out of 552 eligible members have cast their vote in this election. The election result is as follows: Simon Lees 133 Patrick Fitzgerald 129 Shawn W Dunn 74 Joed Lopez 24 We thank all candidates who stepped up and all members who cast their votes in this election. Let’s congratulate Simon and Patrick for being elected as openSUSE Board Members. Regards, Ish Sookun // On behalf of the Election Committee (EC) // EC members: Ariez Vachcha, Edwin Zakaria and Ish Sookun

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RE: openSUSE Board Election 2023 Result
by Patrick Fitzgerald 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

All, I echo Simon's message. Thanks to everyone who voted - no matter who it was for - the more the better. And thanks Shawn and Joed for standing for election. Thanks again. Best - Patrick -- -------------------------------- Patrick Fitzgerald All Support queries to: isupport(a)i-layer.com <mailto:isupport@i-layer.com> -----Original message----- From: Simon Lees <sflees(a)suse.de> Sent: Tuesday 16th January 2024 12:31 To: project(a)lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: openSUSE Board Election 2023 Result Hi All, On 1/16/24 20:44, ish(a)sysadmin-journal.com wrote: > Dear openSUSE members, > > The openSUSE Board Election is now closed. > > 199 out of 552 eligible members have cast their vote in this election. > > The election result is as follows: > > Simon Lees 133 > Patrick Fitzgerald 129 > Shawn W Dunn 74 > Joed Lopez 24 > > We thank all candidates who stepped up and all members who cast their votes in this election. > > Let’s congratulate Simon and Patrick for being elected as openSUSE Board Members. Thankyou to the community for once again for giving me the privilege of serving on the board, to those who weren't elected this time, I believe it was one of the strongest lists of candidates we have had in some time and I hope you consider running again next year so that maybe we can work together on the board in the future. Cheers -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B

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RE: [Notice] - openSUSE Regular Board election 2023 - Patrick's Answers to Questions
by Patrick Fitzgerald 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

A good example of our communications infra needing a bit of work... -----Original message----- From: election-officials-owner(a)lists.opensuse.org <election-officials-owner(a)lists.opensuse.org> Sent: Saturday 13th January 2024 11:00 To: Patrick Fitzgerald <patrickf(a)i-layer.com> Subject: RE: [Notice] - openSUSE Regular Board election 2023 - Patrick's Answers to Questions Your message to the Election Officials mailing-list was rejected for the following reasons: Header "x-spam-status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,RDNS_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE,URIBL_DBL_BLOCKED_OPENDNS, URIBL_ZEN_BLOCKED_OPENDNS autolearn=disabled version=3.4.5" matched a header rule The original message as received by Mailman is attached.

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Community Meeting: Week 3
by ddemaio openSUSE 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

Hi all, You can find information about openSUSE meetings at https://calendar.opensuse.org. As a reminder, after our community meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) at 14:30 UTC (60 minutes), we will have a workshop for this year’s Google Summer of Code application and mentorship efforts. It will start at 15:30 UTC. Community Meeting 2 is scheduled for Thursdays at 20:00 UTC. The openSUSE Conference 2024 is scheduled to have a Business Focused Networking Event on June 26 with the technical portion of the conference beginning on June 27. Read about the business networking event at https://news.opensuse.org/2024/01/12/conference-adds-business-focused-netwo… or submit a talk for the conference at at https://events.opensuse.org/ Find all meeting notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting v/r Doug

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Appllication for the openSUSE membership
by Alexander Orlovsky - Orlovsky Consulting GbR 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

Hi folks! I would like to participate in your openSUSE project. Here you can find my application at https://code.opensuse.org/project/membership/issue/57 Best Regards Alexander

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[Notice] - openSUSE Regular Board election 2023 - CORRECTION
by Ariez Vachha - openSUSE 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

Dear openSUSE members, openSUSE Board Election 2023 [1] It's time to elect new Board members to fill empty seats on the openSUSE Board for 2024. This time we are looking to fill two seats in accordance with our Election Rules [2]: 1. Maurizio Galli, and 2. Patrick Fitzgerald, who are both still eligible for re-election. ## Phase 0 15 November 2023 * Announcement of the Board Election 2023 * Call for Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy * Membership drive 30 November 2023 * Nominations and Applications for Board candidacy close ## Phase 1 1 December 2023 * Announcement of the final list of candidates * Campaign begins * Membership drive continues, opportunity to apply for openSUSE Membership, but new members will only be eligible to vote and not run as candidate ## Phase 2 15 December 2023 * Ballots open: Please cast your vote during this time * Campaign continues 30 December 2023 * Ballots close 31 December 2023 * Announcement of results To stand for a position in the openSUSE Board please send an email to: * project(a)lists.opensuse.org and * election-officials(a)lists.opensuse.org If a member would like to nominate another member, please inform the Election Committee and the officials will contact the nominee to ask whether they would like to run as a Board candidate. Only openSUSE members are eligible to run for openSUSE Board openings in accordance with the Eligibility and Validity section of our Election Rules [2]. The Election Committee [3] are hereby calling for Nominations & Applications for the openSUSE Board. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules [3] Members: Ish Sookun, Edwin Zakaria and Ariez Vachha. -- Regards, The Election Committee election-officials(a)lists.opensuse.org

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Reminder to vote in the openSUSE Board Election
by ish＠sysadmin-journal.com 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

Dear openSUSE Members, This openSUSE Board Election is scheduled to end at January 15, 2024, 11:59 p.m. (UTC). If you not voted yet, you still have until tomorrow to do so. We have sent a reminder via the Election Platform to all those who have not yet cast a ballot. Regards, Ish Sookun // On behalf of the Election Committee

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